Unsettled questions of gender and the law present a broad range of challenges in courtrooms, legislatures, and everyday lives. Laws meant to protect or promote gender equality may have unintended consequences, and laws that seem irrelevant to gender may nonetheless significantly impact gender issues. This conference will convene judges; legal practitioners; and scholars of law, the humanities, and the social sciences from around the world to explore the ways in which legal regulations and gender influence each other. From varying historical and cultural perspectives, participants will address legal encounters with gender in the essential spaces of daily life: the body, the home, school, work, the nation, and the world.

Panelists: Katharine T. Bartlett, A. Kenneth Pye Professor of Law, Duke University School of LawLenora Lapidus, Director, Women’s Rights Project, American Civil Liberties UnionSandra L. Lynch, Chief Judge, US Court of Appeals for the First CircuitKimberly Jenkins Robinson, Associate Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law

5 p.m.

Reception

Friday, March 13, 2009

9 a.m.

Session III: The Market, the Family, and Economic Power

Convener: Janet Halley, Royall Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Panelists: Beshara Doumani RI ’08, Associate Professor of Middle East History, University of California at BerkeleyGillian Lester, Sidley Austin Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, and Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of LawVicki Schultz RI ’01, Ford Foundation Professor of Law and the Social Sciences, Yale Law SchoolChantal Thomas, Professor of Law, Cornell University Law School

10:15 a.m.

Break

10:30 a.m.

Roundtable Discussion: The Market, the Family, and Economic Power (Session III continued)

Panelists: Lisa Duggan, Professor of American Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies, New York UniversityAlice Kessler-Harris RI ’02, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History and Professor in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Columbia UniversitySharon Rabin-Margalioth,Professor of Law, Radzyner School of Law at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya (Israel), and Global Visiting Professor of Law, New York University School of LawYing Sun,Senior Consultant, Trainer, and Program Manager, TAOS Network (China)Philomila Tsoukala, Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law CenterMona Zulficar, Senior Partner, Shalakany Law Office (Egypt)

Panelists: Lauren Berlant, George M. Pullman Professor of English, University of ChicagoBrenda Marjorie Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, House of Lords (United Kingdom)Linda K. Kerber RI ’03,May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of IowaAyelet Shachar,Professor of Law and Political Science and Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Multiculturalism, University of Toronto Faculty of LawReva Siegel, Deputy Dean and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law, Yale Law School